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THE entomologist’s RECORD. 
a brief resu7tie of the work done by the earlier naturalists, and 
enumerated types of the principal genera (of which he had drawn 
large coloured diagrams in illustration). In the course of his remarks 
he described the distinctive characters, and exhibited drawings of 
the following new species : — Lecaniu77i asswiilis n. sp., on Aster, at 
Colwyn Bay; L. 77imi 77111771 , n. sp., on Areca, under glass, Cheshire; 
Pulvmaria persicce, n. sp., on peach, Cheshire; Pseudococcus asso- 
cialis, n. sp., on Ribes, Yorks ; Ripersia to77ili7iii, n. sp., on grass 
roots in ants’ nests, Guernsey ; R. pulveraria, n. sp., under leaf 
sheaths of Agrostis, Cheshire. Mr. Newstead exhibited specimens of 
172 species of Coccid^, including nearly all the known British species. 
Mr. Gardiner exhibited Coccus cacti and Carteria lacca, the latter with 
their products. The secretary, Aspidiotus personatus , VinsoTtia pulchella 
and Lecaniu77i olece ; the latter were much broken by some lepidop- 
terous (?) larvae which had formed silken tunnels under the scales. The 
President exhibited melanic and other forms of Liparis 77ionacha. Mr. 
Gregson, varieties of DiaTithccia co7ispersa, which he divided as follows; — 
A variety, black and white, little, if any, ochreous-yellow. Port 
Patrick, South Scotland ; var. ochrea all the usual white obscured with 
ochre, whole insect ochreous ; var. obscurce all light markings obscured 
with brown ochre colour, Forres, Moray ; var. oblitercE. whole insect dark 
olivaceous-brown, usual markings faint, sometimes quite obliterated, 
Shetland ; also Ab7'axas grossula7'iata bred this year. Mr. Walker, 
water-colour drawings of Deilephila galii, and Mr. Stott a Noctua 
exhibited some time ago which has since been pronounced by Mr. 
Barrett to be a variety of EpuTida Uche7iea. — F. N. Pierce, Hoti, Sec., 
143, Smithdown Lane, Liverpool. Nove77iber 13//?, 1891. 
^JOTICES, REVIEWS, Etc. 
Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera, by 
J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. — These papers which have attracted very consider- 
able attention, both at home and abroad, have, at the suggestion of some 
of our leading entomologists, been reprinted in book form to facilitate 
reference. As a contribution to our knowledge on this particular 
phase of variation, nothing so comprehensive has been attempted before, 
and all the important suggestions relating thereto have been collected 
and dealt with. In the Presidential Address to the Ent. Soc. of Lond., 
1890, Lord Walsingham says: — “An especially interesting line of 
inquiry, as connected wdth the use and value of colour in insects, is that 
which has been followed up in Mr. Tutt’s series of papers on “Melanism 
and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera” in the E7ito77iologisf s 
Record. The book is published by Swan, Sonnenschein and Co. 
Price 2S. 6d. bound in cloth ; or can be obtained by sending Postal 
Order for that amount to Mr. J. W. Tutt, Westcombe Hill, S.E., or to 
Mr. A. J. Hodges, 2, Highbury Place, N., with annual subscriptions for 
the E7/t. Record . — Ed. 
The Macro-lepidoptera of Winchester and the vicinity. By 
the Members of the Winchester College Natural History Society. 
Published by E. R. Cousans, Gazette Office, St. Benedict’s Square, 
Lincoln. Price Sixpence. — Mr. A. W. S. Fisher is primarily respon. 
